Child&#39;s-vehicle runner.



A. D. & W. H. WESTMAN & J. N. RICHARDS.

GHILDS VEHICLE RUNNER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.5,1912.

1,034,749, Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

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CEILD"S-VEHICLE' RUNNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. a ma Application filed February 5, 1912. Serial No. 675,904.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that we, ALFRED D. WEs'r MAN, WILLIAM H. WESTMAN, and JAMEs N. RICHARDS, 'all subjects of the'King of Great Britain, and all residents of the city of Chatham, 1n the county of Kent, 'inthe Province of Ontario, Canada, have jointly invented a new and useful Childs-Vehicle Runner, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make-and use the-same.

This invention relates .tov runners for wheels, whereby the same are adapted for traveling in snow.

Among the objects of this invention is to provide an inexpensive and'serviceable runner, which is 1i ht, strong and durable, and which can readily, easily and quickly be applied to the ,wheels and removed therefrom, when the snow disappears during the journey, p Q

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out. v

Referring to the accompanyingdrawings forming part of this description, wherein similar letters of reference indicate 'corresponding parts, Figure 1- represents a side elevation of a pair. of wheels each. provided with a runner constructed in accordance view of the runner. Fig. 3 is a detail cen tral longitudinal sectional view ofsame, in which part of the attachment to the runner is shown. Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view of the runner and semicircular plate.

In the acjcompan ing drawings, 1 designates a runner pree'rably formed of metal but it may be formed of other-su'itablematerial as desired, in this runner 1 a longi-' tudinal groove, a, is formed to give it a massiveappearance at the fsametlme-form it light, strong and durable. The runner 1 is turned ugslightly for a short distance at,

the rear en as shown at, b, and" it is turned up at the front end past the center as shown at, o, for the purpose of tightly grasping the front wheel. g

2 designates the front wheels and 3 the rear wheels of a baby carriage or the like, and these front and-rear wheels are connectsuitab e gearing 4:.

plate, which is riveted by the rivets, d, or other Suitable securing means, to the runner 1 as shown particularly in Figs. 3 and 4.

6 designates a cotter pin which is bent which looped portion, 6, of said cotter pin 6 ,extends partly through thehole, f, in said semicircular plate 5, andis secured to said semicircular plate 5 by turning up the ends, it, of said cotter pin 6 at right angles thereto as shown in F1 3. 1

7 designates'a-coil sprmg one end ofwhich is secured to said cotter pin 6, and, is a hook secured to the other end of said coil "spring 7. v

In the accompanying drawings-one runner only-is shown but one or more runners may be used on one or bothsides of the vehicle as desired. These runners are readily, easily and quickly attached to or detached from the wheels. as follows. These runners are attached to any wheeled vehicle by first 1 placing the wheels of the vehicle, to which expanded until the hook, 2', passes over the hubof the wheel when the contraction of wheelsecurely binds and locks the whole together. And these wheels are readily, easily and quickly removed from the runners by simply expanding the coil wire 7.

' While this invention has been described as applicable to baby carriages since the same same, it will also be evident that the same might be applied to larger vehicles of variouskinds. I This device therefore provides a simple, light, strong and durable runner for this purpose and one not liable to get out of repa n- Having thus described our invention, we claim, j 4

'In a device of the class described,'a runner formed with a longitudinal groove in its upper faceturned up past the center at the ed to ether and one to the other by any 5 deslgnates a semicircular longitudinal holds the wheel while the coil spring 7 is the coiled wire acting on the hub of the is the'most common use contemplated for over ontitself and formed with the loop, 6,

front end and turned up slightly at the rear In testimony whereof, we have signed 10 end, n combination with a semicircular the presence of the two undersigned witplate concaved on the lower side which is nesses.

secured to said runner, a cotter pin extend- ALFRED D.'WESTMAN. ing through and secured to said semicircu- WILLIAM H. WESTMAN. lar plate, a coil spring secured to said cot- JAMES N. RIGHARDS.

ter pin, a hook secured to said coil spring Witnesses;

and adapted to engage with the hubor hubs ALFRED of a wheeled vehicle. BASIL A. HUBBARD. 

